Excellent Advice for a Cop’s Wife
If you missed the exciting LAPD film End of Watch in the theaters, it’s worth getting it on DVD. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena play a couple of hot dog cruiser cops on L.A.’s mean streets. The film, written by Training Day guy David Ayer, is done “found footage” or documentary-style, which sometimes leads to some distracting moments when you’re thinking — “Wait, who’s holding the camera now?” But aside from that — a minor problem — it’s gritty, well-acted and moving. And it represents the cops fairly and well.
Being me, I especially liked the macho ethos of it all. Lots of good cop partner moments, and high respect for marriage and wives in the manner of real men. There’s a funny and touching wedding scene in which one cop’s wife explains to the newbie how she’s got to give it up without restraint if she wants to keep her husband from straying. Excellent advice. Plus, the bride was played by Anna Kendrick, who was the high point of the overrated George Clooney film Up in the Air. She’s a superb and extremely appealing actress. She ought to get a lead role soon.
Recently, I was blown away by Heather Mac Donald’s City Journal piece “Courts v. Cops.” It tells how the NYCLU and other self-appointed defenders of black rights are interfering with the NYPD and thus insuring more black people get murdered and victimized. Heather — one of the best reporters in the country — points out that the law-abiding black citizen who is grateful for the police “seemingly lies outside the conceptual universe of the advocates and their enablers in elite law firms and the media.” So it was nice to see a film in which the true guardians of the lives of the poor get some props.
Read the article, watch the movie.
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Cross-posted from Klavan on the Culture
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Uh, Anna Kendrick starred in Pitch Perfect, which is a big cult hit. Pitch Perfect was a movie I was forced to watch by my wife, but I ended up loving. It was way better than End of Watch.
Heather MacDonald is good at blowing away politically correct smoke and shining light where it’s needed; specifically on the phony construct made of mirrors called the New Jim Crow.
Lucky for us the Left is intellectually stunted and their arguments fall apart under the least scrutiny. People like Michelle Alexander like to let false comparisons run like saying more blacks are involved in the criminal justice system today than were slaves in 1850. Even if it were true, so what? It’s done to connect two things that have nothing to do with one another and imply – dah-daaaah! Slavery and a New Jim Crow. Of course this then morphs into saying there are simply more blacks in prison than were slaves in 1850, as seen in this HuffPo headline. With about 900,000 blacks in prison today and 3.2 million slaves in 1850, 4 million in 1860, Alexander lets the confusion go.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/michelle-alexander-more-black-men-in-prison-slaves-1850_n_1007368.html
The truth, always a bridesmaid on the Left.
Why don’t they say that there are 900,000 democrats of color in prison and what can America do to fight the huge numbers of democrats in jail. There are a few republicans in the hoosegow to be sure, but why all the democrats? How about a congressional panel to investigate the linkage between crime and the democrat party.
Yahira “Flakis” Garcia jumps through the screen as LaLa the girl gangster.
She has an air of authenticity.